Awards

At Taco Taco Cafe, our delicious Mexican food, is all made with your choice of the freshest ingredients and served in an up-beat, friendly environment. With all the choices of mouth-watering ingredients, handmade salsas, tasty homemade tortillas, and so many unique choices, you’ll see why Taco Taco Cafe has so many awards to it’s name.

Best Tacos in America

Americas Top Restaurants
We ate our way across the country to find the quintessential versions of six American Classics: pizza, steak, tacos, hamburgers, fried chicken, and ribs. After we chose the three finalists in each category, we shared our picks with Food Network. Read on to savor the delicious journey – then watch Food Network on August 18 as Alton Brown reveals our winners.

WHY ITS THE BEST. The lines are long and start early at this 40-seat breakfast-and-lunch restaurant that cooks the best cheap tacos in town. Breakfast may seem an odd time for Mexican food for some, but the chorizo-and-egg tacos and chilaquiles will satisfy cravings you never knew you had.

Everything – from the tortillas to the salsas and refried beans – is made fresh daily, and the El Taco Norteño (a flour tortilla stuffed with beans, cheese, avocado, and grilled beef or chicken) has reached cult status.

WHAT TO ORDER. El Norteño and bacon-and-egg taco with a side of rice and beans.

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San Antonio Express News Reader’s Choice

” Each weekend it’s the same thing. Customers start lining up early for a seat at Taco Taco Cafe, 145 E. Hildebrand Ave., the orderly queue frequently snaking out the door. The attraction is no secret, thanks to a host of local, regional and national publications that have heaped praise on the cozy Mexican-food eatery’s generously filled tacos. Taco Taco’s latest laurel? Readers’ Choice for best breakfast tacos. Made with fresh flour tortillas the size of dinner plates, Taco Taco’s breakfast tacos are prepared under the ever-vigilant eye of owner Helen Velesiotis. “I put so much love into the tacos, it’s unbelievable. Every taco has to almost go through me,” she says. “I’m always looking into everything, making sure everything is fresh, ripe, fluffy, tastes just right.” The menu lists 21 varieties with fillings combined in various permutations, but, really, the possibilities are, if not endless, more than enough. “There’s a lot, because you can add on whatever, you know,” Velesiotis says. “You can add on rice, beans, potatoes, cheese, guacamole, bacon, chorizo, country (sausage). So what people do is they mix the tacos with other ingredients, so probably there’s at least 300 combinations.” Taco Taco Cafe also won second-place honors for best restaurant for the buck, and third place for its tortillas. Congratulations Taco Taco! 145 E. Hildebrand, 822-9533, tacotacosa.com..
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2013, SA Current Best of San Antonio: Best Breakfast Tacos – Taco Taco Cafe

Once again, Taco Taco Cafe is rated Best Taco in San Antonio by SA Current magazine, and this year also Best Puffy taco!

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2013, SA Current Best of San Antonio: Best Breakfast Tacos – Taco Taco Cafe

Despite glacial wait times during peak weekend hours, Taco Taco Cafe deservingly swept six different Best Of categories this year and remains a favorite breakfast and lunch destination for visitors, locals, and hung over college students alike. This much lauded and greatly loved San Antonio staple is allegedly expanding — and not just onto its fancy new patio. The website of franchise development company Fransmart reports five additional Taco Taco units to be in development. 145 E. Hildebrand, 822-9533, tacotacosa.com..

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San Antonio Magazine 2014 – Best Breakfast Tacos

Taco Taco Cafe was honored to have been voted Best Breakfast Tacos in San Antonio, by readers of SA Magazine. We are truly blessed and humbled to have the support of San Antonio.145 E. Hildebrand, 822-9533, tacotacosa.com..

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WOAI Best of San Antonio 2011- Best Breakfast Tacos

” The winner of our inaugural Best of San Antonio series is Taco Taco, at the corner of Hildebrand and McCullough, just north of Downtown. Things got a little emotional over at Taco Taco when we walked in with our camera. “Thank you WOAI. We love you!” said Helen Velesiotis, the owner of Taco Taco. She tells me a lot of love is what makes her tacos the best. “I love San Antonio! Thank you San Antonio for everything you’ve given me. Thank you WOAI, you’re the best,” said Helen. We asked you to nominate your favorite place to get a breakfast taco â€“ and boy did you ever respond! We have been overwhelmed with hundred of nominations. Congratulations Taco Taco! 145 E. Hildebrand, 822-9533, tacotacosa.com..

San Antonio Magazine Best of The City 2010 Editors’ and Readers’ Choice Best Breakfast Tacos

“Yes, you can get breakfast tacos on every corner in this town, but we still go back to this corner for bigger than your head tacos, plump with stuffings and cupped with homecrafted tortillas. Fast and geniune, the service is twice as nice, too. Taco Taco Cafe 145 E. Hildebrand, 822-9533, tacotacosa.com..

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“This place looks like Austin,” said a friend. Well, maybe an Austin circa 1950. The look is very Anglo (white walls, orange swivel chairs at the abbreviated counter, and tiles with a frilly floral design.) But the menu is pre Mexican, and among the plethora of tacos, the biggest and best is the Norteño. This behemoth boasts a homemade flour tortillas nearly the size of an individual pizza. Said tortilla is grilled to a toasty finish and stuffed within an inch of its life with thickly sliced, reasonably tender beef fajita meat (the chicken is almost as good). Then it’s piled even higher with a layer of refried beans plus sliced avocado and bell pepper and melted white cheese. You won’t need to eat again for three days.

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Ignore the restaurant’s gringo-fied name and the fact that the owner, Helen Velesiotis, is not exactly an abuela from Oaxaca: when breakfast tacos are this good, questions of authenticity are moot. And the tortilla-and-egg concoctions at this laid-back San Antonio cafe are spectacular. Cradled by delicate house-made flour tortillas, the indelicate mess of fluffy eggs, along with some morning-friendly meat (potatoes, refried beans), can kill a hangover as quickly as it can concert a taco purist.

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Daily Meal – 35 Best Taco Spots in the US

Taco Taco was nominated by the Daily Meal as one of the top 35 taco spots in the US.

Taco Taco Cafe was featured in San Antonio’s Magazine 75 Dining Adventures.

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They don’t call it the biggest and the best for nothing. One popular Taco Norteño is sire to satisfy two or three hearty appetites. This taco is simple but serious on flavor.

A jumbo, slightly toasted flower tortilla is stuffed with fluffy refried beans, tender beef fajitas and avocado and topped with melted white cheese. Juicy chicken fajitas can be substituted for beef if preferred.

Recognized for having the best tacos in America by the Food Network, Taco Taco Cafe’s food is homemade from the freshest ingredients and contains no added animal fat. Feel free to indulge without feeling too guilty.

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Food & Wine

This family-run San Antonio favorite specializes in the breakfast taco, done in pure Tex-Mex style: House-made, oversized tortillas are puffed up in a deep fryer until they’re all crunch and air, then piled with egg and cheese and accompanied by any combination of bacon, beans, chorizo and ham. Locals know the slow-roasted, smoky barbacoa is only available on weekends. tacotacosa.com

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About Taco Taco

"THE BEST TACOS IN AMERICA!!!"

-BON APETIT ON FOOD NETWORK

Taco Taco has been in business for over 14 years and has become a local landmark for Mexican food and quality service. Taco Taco is well known around the nation through its recognition and awards from The Food Network, The San Antonio Express News, and other media outlets. Taco Taco has received many awards recognizing its superior food and service to the San Antonio Community.